About Dashboards

Overview

A Dash0 dashboard is a unified view that consolidates observability signals—logs, metrics, traces, resources, and web events—into a single, customizable canvas.

Dashboards allow teams to monitor system health, investigate incidents, and share operational context across the organization.

Dash0 dashboards are built on the Perses open standard. Perses is a vendor-neutral dashboard specification designed to prevent lock-in, making it straightforward to import, export, and migrate dashboards between compatible systems.

Understand Key Concepts

• Dashboard: A canvas containing one or more panels, each displaying a specific query result or visualization.
• Panel: An individual visualization widget (chart, stat, table, or Markdown) placed on the dashboard canvas. Panels are analogous to sticky notes that can be freely positioned and resized.
• Query: A data retrieval expression (e.g., PromQL) that feeds data into a panel. Each panel supports one or more independent queries.
• Variable: A dynamic parameter (e.g., service name) that filters data across panels using PromQL label substitution.
• Group: A collapsible container used to organize related panels within a dashboard.
• Annotation: A log-event overlay displayed on a chart's timeline, enabling visual correlation between data spikes and specific events.